Chapter 7 Flashcards
Why do 10 to 20 percent of babies cry reflexively?
Immature digestion causing gas and reflux or an allergy to formula ingredients
Crying strategies
Feed (bottle, breast,) Binkie, Burp, Swaddle (bunt), White noise, Rock
When does social smile appear?
About 6 weeks, evoked by human face
When is laugh out loud laughter?
3 months
When does anger appear and what triggers it?
Appears at 6 months, triggered by frustration
What emotion causes cortisol to increase?
Sadness. Extended sadness
What does excessive stress do?
Impairs the brain, changing it’s architecture
When does separation anxiety appear?
Appears at 9 months, normal at age 1, intensifies by age 2 and then subsides
Stranger Wariness
Appears around 9-12 months. Baby no longer smiles at any face. Depends on the development of object permanence.
Appropriate response to temper tantrums
Respond with comforting sounds and words
When do pride, shame, and embarrassment appear?
The end of the second year. Related to social awareness
Self-Awareness
Realization that he or she is a distinct individual
Dot of rouge experiment teaches us…
Self-recognition appears at about 18 months
Temperament
A genetic disposition. Inborn
Difference between personality and temperament
Personality is learned, temperament is innate
The temperamental traits are…
Effortful control
Negative mood
Exuberance
Prenatal/physiological influences on temperament
Hormones, limbic system differences, early maternal influences
Parent’s responsiveness
Fosters heart rate, weight gain, brain maturation
synchrony
back and forth interaction between parent and child. Children with ASD lack this
attachment
Tie the infant forms with the caregiver